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Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd

Following up a story from May, linux2004 writes "for those who thought Netscape was dead after firing all their staff and spinning Mozilla off into a non-profit foundation, then think again. It was announced a while back that Netscape would continue releases of their browser suite and now the release date has been confirmed as August 3rd as a free download or by buying a CD. I don't think it'll take the attention away from Firefox but will be a decent upgrade for those using Netscape 7.1. The 7.2 release will be based on Mozilla 1.7 and will probably have the usual Netscape additions."

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  1. Re:it's not the first time... by linuxci · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the first release since the Mozilla *Foundation* was founded just over a year ago. It was formed July 15th, 2003 and Netscape 7.1 was released June 29th, at the time it was expected to be the last Netscape release.

  2. Re:Glad to hear it by will_die · · Score: 5, Informative

    Had that problem with firefox then got user agent switcher and use that when I need to lie about my brower type.
    You can mess around with the message that is send, so for instance you can report that you are internet explorer running on a commodore-64.